Stanford Sports Performance

The Method

Utilize the finest and most pioneering methodology, within an educationally-enriched and scientific environment, our mission is to push the envelope and drive innovation to facilitate the ethical enhancement of athletic performance and improve the quality of life of the Stanford athlete.

The Mission

The mission of the Stanford Sports Performance department is to strengthen student-athletes’ pursuit of championship goals and high achievement throughout their life with a program aimed at enhancing athletic performance, reducing the incidence of injury, and developing mental discipline.
Core Values:

Collaboration

Process-oriented

Safety

Accountability

Competition

“Improving performance requires a multidisciplinary approach. Hence there are a number of factors which can result in either a positive manner (improving performance) or in a negative manner (attenuating performance).”

Inside the Stanford weight room earlier this football season, there were weight vests and wooden sticks and core boards. There…

Sports Performance Team

The Sports Performance Coach is a new breed of uniquely qualified performance coach for the next generation of athletes. Encompassing a greater scope of knowledge in all of the related aspects of performance (movement, recovery & regeneration, nutrition, flexibility, energy system development, strength, evaluation, etc.), this athletic development specialist possesses a totally encompassing and diverse background to assist the Stanford coaches and athletes with the most innovative, effective and ethical means to help each achieve his/her athletic goals.

Stanford will open Pac-12 play with a three-game set at California starting on Saturday. All three games in the series will be broadcast live on Pac-12 Networks.

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Why Bilateral vs Unilateral?-Unilateral work is important because requires greater proprioception and core stability than bilateral movements, whether you're sprinting, throwing, cutting or jumping, it's rare for both of limbs to be used simultaneously during movements, and helps improve muscular imbalances since athletes cannot rely on your stronger side to make up for a lack of strength in your weaker side.-Bilateral work is important because you can lift more weight which increases neuromuscular and CNS adaptations, allows for reciprocal inhibition which is the relaxation of muscles on one side of a joint so that prime movers on the other side can perform an action with greater force, and trains both sides at the same time which prevents pre set fatigue on the central nervous system that may happen during a unilateral set when having to switch sides.-👀 @jthill42 @sierraenge @tito_suave @jpnumber21.-#NerdNation #GoStanford #Stanford #SportsPerformance #SportScience #118andcounting #🏆 #HardWork #FarmLife @ Stanford, California ... See MoreSee Less